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Over the past 18 months, Blue Stream Academy has witnessed the immense effect that COVID-19 has taken on our trainee community of over a quarter of a million health and care professionals. We have seen many stretched beyond their limits, retired professionals returning to the sector to support the COVID-19 response and an incredible nationwide appreciation for every individual who stepped up to the unknown.
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s the UK begins to adjust to new forms of normality, we wanted to find out how our health and care professionals really feel. So, for this issue of BSA Today, we have decided to do things a little differently with regards to our Look Who’s Talking feature. Instead of inviting one specific industry expert to have their say, we have handed this issue over to our Subscribers’ Club members to give them a dedicated platform to share their views on how the pandemic has changed their lives and practices. More importantly, this article serves to highlight the benefits of open discussion as a way to improve standards and raise awareness of specific issues within health and social care. We provided each subscriber with the same 4 questions, and here is what they had to say… With every single individual adapting to some new form of normal, we wanted to know which of the changes they thought should stay for good.
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What changes due to COVID would you like to see continued?
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Many subscribers felt that the increased hygiene and safety of wearing facemasks, along with limited physical contact, should be maintained, with a plea for increased awareness of the benefits of these practices being highlighted: “Strangers should not shake hands, and fake hugging and kissing colleagues should be a thing of the past! We all need to respect frontline workers in all industries, not just healthcare.” “Wearing of facemasks to be continued. Social distancing where possible.” “The awareness and acceptance of good practices around hygiene.” “Would like to see the continuation of wearing masks in public.” “Increased use of online consulting/ telephone triage as I feel this also benefits the patients and reduces packed waiting rooms.”
